Live Mesh Gets Updated – No More UAC? (Updated with full changelog)

meshupdate Steve Clayton rightly points out that Live Mesh got an update during the night, which I’ve seen on my three PCs that are in my own Mesh. At the moment there is no official changelog of what’s been updated, but one thing I have noticed is that if you’re using Vista, you no longer have to have UAC turned on, which is great news for a lot of users.

There’s nothing in the Live Mesh Forums at the moment about what else has changed, but as soon as we know, we’ll post it up here. In the meantime, enjoy being UAC free again Cheesy Grin Smilie

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Update: I knew I had read about this somewhere, but couldn’t remember where. This announcement was made in the Live Mesh Forum last week which I then read on a twitter update (which is probably why I checked this in the first place). So thanks JamieT for the heads up (even if we forgot about it to start off with Embarressed Smilie)

Update 2: Nadia has just posted on the Live Mesh Forums about what bug fixes have gone through with the recent update. From the forum:

The Live Mesh team has been working hard to fix bugs reported by our Tech Preview users and to address top requested features (such as removing the requirement that UAC be enabled in Windows Vista).  Below is a list of the most prominent fixes implemented in the latest Live Mesh release.  Thank you for all your great feedback!

Fixes

· Live Mesh is now available in all English-speaking countries (not just the U.S.)

· Index for Desktop Search now works with Live Mesh folders

· Removed the User Account Control (UAC) requirement when installing and using Live Mesh with Windows Vista SP1

· Fixed bug where an underscore in a Hotmail account name returned an “Invalid Hotmail Address” error

· Fixed bug with Silverlight 2 Beta 2 failing to load in Silverlight Media View

· Fixed bug where the notifier tooltip incorrectly indicated that Live Mesh Remote Desktop was unavailable for a computer running in non-admin mode

· Fixed bug where the Live Mesh folder icon was not displayed in the e-mail inviting someone to share a folder

· Fixed one of the bugs that caused Live Mesh to fail to start

· Fixed problem with Live Mesh returning errors when waking from sleep/hibernate

Kudos to the team for these fixes, I see the two main popular ones will be the removal of UAC and the English speaking countries (not just en-US).

SL

Comments

  • Nick

    Still doesn’t work for me with UAC off :(

  • Chris

    Random aside, I love the new funky logo on the signin page (it was blank for a long time)

    https://www.mesh.com/res/images/livemeshlogin.png

  • ScottIsAFool

    Nick, have you rebooted after turning off UAC?

  • Nick

    Yep, got a nice little message about the Vista RTM restrictions

  • Elitist Snob

    So…how does this update result in me getting an invite to Live Mesh? ;-)

  • derviskemal

    talking of updates, live search maps has had a facelift to match live search – maps.live.com
    or am i just late?

  • VasiS

    @derviskemal

    Good Find, yes it does look like a face lift. It looks a lot better now.

    The main change seems to be the search text box and the links to various categories “business”, people, locations, web etc.

    Is “Collections” newly added in this list of categories? It is there on the right side (above the map) but i dont remember seeing it among these links b4 today.

  • ScottIsAFool

    @Nick the UAC update is only for Vista SP1. If you’re still running the RTM build, then you won’t be able to turn UAC off.

  • BuciboLebo

    Is something brewing, are we going to see something with Live Calendar as well. It has been out for the whole day

  • Chris

    BicboLebo: The team are aware its down and are working on getting it back up again.

  • Nick

    @Scott, dam, I refuse to upgrade to SP1, since it messes up windows media center for me

  • pnanninga

    I don’t think they fixed the underscore bug. My wife’s email address has two underscore’s in it and it still returns “invalid address” errors.

  • Matt

    Some aspects of Spaces don’t seem to be working either- Quote of the Day, Stocks, weather, and other gadgets requiring an internet connection. Spaces that have these gadgets have empty areas below the gadget title. Could something be happening behind the scenes for an upgrade…?

  • Matt

    In fact, Spaces publishing isn’t working at all either for me.

  • ScottIsAFool

    @Nick weird, not had any VMC issues with SP1…

  • Nick

    @Scott, the TV quality is low and the colors are all washed out, really annoying, so I’m sticking with Vista RTM